Sony have revealed via their blog that In Game XMB and Trophies will appear in firmware version 2.4.

It’s been a long time coming but this is quite exciting news for PS3 owners, here is what the blog says "A new Playstation 3 firmware update (v2.36) will be launching soon, improving system stability when playing select PlayStation format software titles. We’re also happy to officially report that the 2.40 system software update for PS3 will include “XMB” access in-game. The update will also include “trophies,” an exciting new feature that we’ll be providing more details on soon, as well as some other new enhancements. We’ve talked about some of this on the blog previously and know that many of you can’t wait to get your hands on these features. You can expect us to share all of the official details shortly".